{ "id": "eperakvvfh", "slug": "punished-by-his-love", "title": "Punished by His Love", "updated": "2026-11-01", "topic_path": [ { "id": "culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture" }, { "id": "culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series", "label": "Series and fictional screen worlds", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_unscripted", "label": "Unscripted, reality, and web-native series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_unscripted" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native", "label": "Web-native and streaming-original series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native.comedy_general_webseries", "label": "Comedy, drama, and general-genre web series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native.comedy_general_webseries" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native.comedy_general_webseries.yr-2022-2026", "label": "Premiered 2022 to 2026", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native.comedy_general_webseries.yr-2022-2026" } ], "geo": [ { "id": "geo.chn.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series.series_unscripted", "label": "China · 2021 and later: Unscripted, reality, and web-native series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series.series_unscripted", "path": [ { "id": "geo.chn", "label": "China", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t2021", "label": "China · 2021 and later", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2021" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t2021.culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2021.culture" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t2021.culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2021.culture.performance" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t2021.culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2021.culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series", "label": "Series and fictional screen worlds", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series.series_unscripted", "label": "Unscripted, reality, and web-native series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series.series_unscripted" } ] }, { "id": "geo.asia.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series.series_unscripted", "label": "Asia (other) · 2021 and later: Unscripted, reality, and web-native series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series.series_unscripted", "path": [ { "id": "geo.asia", "label": "Asia (other)", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia" }, { "id": "geo.asia.t2021", "label": "Asia (other) · 2021 and later", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia.t2021" }, { "id": "geo.asia.t2021.culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia.t2021.culture" }, { "id": "geo.asia.t2021.culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia.t2021.culture.performance" }, { "id": "geo.asia.t2021.culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia.t2021.culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "geo.asia.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series", "label": "Series and fictional screen worlds", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series" }, { "id": "geo.asia.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series.series_unscripted", "label": "Unscripted, reality, and web-native series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series.series_unscripted" } ] } ], "excerpt": "Punished by His Love: 2025 DramaBox vertical drama (63 episodes, released May 30, 2025) starring Rue Austin and Neven Tomic; also a 2,823-chapter web novel by Suzie and a 2026 Thai Channel 3 drama with a near-identical title.", "snippet": "Punished by His Love: 2025 DramaBox vertical drama (63 episodes, released May 30, 2025) starring Rue Austin and Neven Tomic; also a 2,823-chapter web novel by Suzie and a 2026 Thai Channel 3 drama with a near-identical title.", "node": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native.comedy_general_webseries.yr-2022-2026", "markdown": "# Punished by His Love\n\n**Punished by His Love** is a 2025 vertical drama (a short-form series made for vertical phone screens) released on the DramaBox platform, starring Rue Austin and Neven Tomic in a revenge romance about a destitute woman forced into a scapegoat role and the man who hunts her down after she leaves him[1](https://verticalvault.app/dramas/punished-by-his-love-VV-1094). The same title is also carried by a long-running web novel by the author writing as Suzie, and by a Thai Channel 3 revenge drama with the near-identical English title *Punished for Loving You* scheduled for 2026[2](https://www.goodnovel.com/resources/book-review/Punished-by-His-Love-by-Suzie) • [3](https://en.thairath.co.th/entertain/series/2923733).\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Format | Vertical drama on DramaBox; released May 30, 2025[1](https://verticalvault.app/dramas/punished-by-his-love-VV-1094) |\n| Leads | Rue Austin as Alice Reed; Neven Tomic as Christian[1](https://verticalvault.app/dramas/punished-by-his-love-VV-1094) |\n| Crew | Director Lucas Pelizaro; writers Tao Li Zhang and Yu Zhu; line producer Peishen Liang[1](https://verticalvault.app/dramas/punished-by-his-love-VV-1094) |\n| Reception | IMDb rating 7.5/10 from 131 votes, listed as a 2025 TV mini series in the Micro-Drama and Drama categories[4](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt37195914/) |\n| Novel | Web novel by the author under the pen name Suzie, completed at 2,823 chapters on GoodNovel[2](https://www.goodnovel.com/resources/book-review/Punished-by-His-Love-by-Suzie) |\n| Novel rating | 4.13/5 from 524 ratings and 57 reviews on Goodreads[5](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/58939248-punished-by-his-love) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Story of the vertical drama\n\nThe series follows Alice, a woman with no resources of her own whose survival depends on others. She is forced to act as a scapegoat and trades herself, which results in her pregnancy. Christian, the male lead, sees her as the embodiment of evil, greedy and deceitful. She tries to win his heart and fails; her departure enrages him, and he searches for her and recaptures her, with the whole city expecting her to be destroyed[1](https://verticalvault.app/dramas/punished-by-his-love-VV-1094) • [4](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt37195914/).\n\nA recap version of the story fills in the setup: Alice serves five years in prison as a scapegoat for the Gower family to secure her mother's medical care, then learns after release that her mother has died and that she is pregnant. Desperate, she seeks help from Catherine Salinger and falls into the web of Christian Salinger, a crime lord who framed her for his brother's murder and forces her into a temporary marriage to satisfy his dying mother's demand[6](https://www.hubshort.cc/articles/punished-by-his-love). Recap platforms describe the genre mix as crime, revenge, fake marriage, and slow-burn romance[6](https://www.hubshort.cc/articles/punished-by-his-love).\n\nThe supporting cast includes Caitlin Anderson as Julianne Gower, Byron Donovan as Max, Paul Hedley as James Gower, Audrey Lindsay as Catherine Salim, Cindy Valian as the Inmate Leader, and Dylan Eleanor Faye as a prison guard[1](https://verticalvault.app/dramas/punished-by-his-love-VV-1094).\n\n### Episode count discrepancy\n\nThe main English catalog listing gives 63 episodes[1](https://verticalvault.app/dramas/punished-by-his-love-VV-1094), and an Arabic-language viewer page for the same title, معاقبة على حبه, lists 90 episodes and describes the same opening premise of a destitute woman named Rabaa (ربى) forced to be a scapegoat who sells herself and becomes pregnant[7](https://etbilarabi.com/watch/%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%82%D8%A8%D8%A9-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%AD%D8%A8%D9%87-punished-his-love). The two counts have not been reconciled; vertical dramas are frequently recut into different episode lengths for different regional releases, which is a common source of such variation, though no source here states that reason explicitly.\n\n## The novel by Suzie\n\nThe title originated as a web novel by an author writing under the pen name Suzie, published on GoodNovel and completed at 2,823 chapters[2](https://www.goodnovel.com/resources/book-review/Punished-by-His-Love-by-Suzie). Its heroine is Sabrina Scott, a poor girl temporarily bailed out of jail to spend a night in an old mansion, where she sells herself for money to save her mother, only to learn her mother has died. After her acquittal she meets Sebastian Ford, the man from that night, and is forced to marry him because of his dying mother's wish. She escapes, takes the name Layla Young, and discovers she is pregnant. She later learns Sebastian is the son of Summer Grace, a fellow inmate she cared for, and the two marry to fulfill Grace's wish before Sabrina is abducted by Selene, Sebastian's intended fiancée. Sebastian then pursues her, claiming she stole his heart and bore his child[2](https://www.goodnovel.com/resources/book-review/Punished-by-His-Love-by-Suzie).\n\nThe novel is written in the third person from an omniscient point of view, and a GoodNovel review identifies its central theme as the consequences of one's decisions, tracing how Sabrina's choice to sell herself sets off the marriage, the divorce, and the pursuit that follows[2](https://www.goodnovel.com/resources/book-review/Punished-by-His-Love-by-Suzie). A [Goodreads](https://www.edgepedia.org/goodreads) edition attributed to the name Sabrina Scott holds a 4.13 average from 524 ratings; reader reviews there praise the story while complaining about incomplete chapter availability and the drawn-out length[5](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/58939248-punished-by-his-love).\n\n## The Thai series with a similar title\n\nA separate Thai production, *Punished for Loving You* (Thai title transliterated as Thot Than Thi Rak Thoe), is a Channel 3 revenge drama scheduled to premiere on 15 April 2026, airing Wednesdays and Thursdays at 20:30 on Channel 3 (TV channel 33, online via 3Plus)[3](https://en.thairath.co.th/entertain/series/2923733). It stars Nai Napath, described as transforming from a warm-hearted leading man to a darker role, opposite Mint Ranshree, and is produced by Kai Warayut[3](https://en.thairath.co.th/entertain/series/2923733). Its plot concerns Piraka, a medical student accused of murdering his own family and betrayed by his lover Mesa; six years later a mysterious man called Wayu, who reminds Mesa of Piraka, uses media exposure to force the buried case back into public view[3](https://en.thairath.co.th/entertain/series/2923733).\n\nDetails about this Thai series differ between sources: the Thairath synopsis centers on the Piraka and Mesa revenge plot, while another listing describes a medical intern named Peeraka (played by Mint Ranchrawee Uakoolwarawat) treating the injured father of a criminal named Wayu (played by Nine Naphat Siangsomboon), directed by Bum Piyakorn Chayaninpromate, written by Sriyuda Wannaphak, and running 12 episodes[8](https://shapes.inc/fandom/thot-than-thi-rak-thoe-castigo-por-amarte). The two accounts agree on the Wayu character and the revenge premise but disagree on casting and structure, and no source here resolves the difference.\n\n## Context: the vertical drama format\n\nThe 2025 series belongs to the vertical drama market, in which episodes of a few minutes are shot in portrait orientation and distributed through apps such as DramaBox, often as pay-per-episode or ad-supported serials. IMDb classifies it as a micro-drama and lists its first episode as airing 30 May 2025[4](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt37195914/) • [9](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt37195914/episodes/). Its plot formula, a wronged woman, a coerced marriage, a pregnancy, and a vengeful male lead, matches the contract-relationship and forced-love tags applied to it in the DramaBox catalog[1](https://verticalvault.app/dramas/punished-by-his-love-VV-1094), and closely mirrors the novel's premise, indicating the drama is an adaptation of the Suzie story's setup[2](https://www.goodnovel.com/resources/book-review/Punished-by-His-Love-by-Suzie).\n\n## References\n\n1. [Punished by His Love Cast & Where to Watch, VerticalVault](https://verticalvault.app/dramas/punished-by-his-love-VV-1094)\n2. [Book Review: Punished by His Love Novel by Suzie, GoodNovel](https://www.goodnovel.com/resources/book-review/Punished-by-His-Love-by-Suzie)\n3. [Synopsis of Punished for Loving You: A Dramatic Revenge Series with Full Cast List, Thairath](https://en.thairath.co.th/entertain/series/2923733)\n4. [Punished by His Love (TV Mini Series 2025), IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt37195914/)\n5. [Punished by His Love by Sabrina Scott, Goodreads](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/58939248-punished-by-his-love)\n6. [Punished by His Love – Recap, HubShort](https://www.hubshort.cc/articles/punished-by-his-love)\n7. [معاقبة على حبه – Punished by His Love, ET بالعربي](https://etbilarabi.com/watch/%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%82%D8%A8%D8%A9-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%AD%D8%A8%D9%87-punished-his-love)\n8. [Thot Than Thi Rak Thoe – Castigo por amarte, Shapes](https://shapes.inc/fandom/thot-than-thi-rak-thoe-castigo-por-amarte)\n9. 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